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From what I remember, the "connection" between poppers and KS was another AIDS urban legend. In the beginning, people thought AIDS was caused by poppers or that use of them helped bring it on.

Of course, that's nonsense, but people were grabbing at straws in those days.

HUGS,

Mark

Edited to add this from aidsmap.com:

"Both HHV-8 and Kaposi's sarcoma itself are much more common among HIV-positive gay or bisexual men, women infected by bisexual men, and people from African communities, than other groups of people with HIV. Earlier ideas about the cause of KS, such as the theory that it was linked to the recreational use of poppers (inhaled nitrites) by gay men, have now been discounted.

HHV-8 appears to be sexually transmitted, although it could also be transmitted in other ways. There is no generally available test for HHV-8 yet; a test might not be useful anyway since no-one knows what proportion of HIV-positive people infected with HHV-8 will go on to develop KS."

I had KS with PCP when my t-cells were below 100, Once I went over 200 on the cocktail they disappeared. I'm sure both will come back in the end when I don't respond to or run out of drugs. Ks I understood is a blood dissorder probably virus. that is transmitted. They haev found it often in Mediterranean men. And they think that it is also transmited thru fecal material which can be had from oral copulation after penetration and rimming. I'm guilty of both.

Problem with KS is you can have it spread anywhere inside the body too as in your intestines or lungs which means they can't function normally . Doesn't take much to figure out the results if it spreads.